The lie of “we serve the community” isn’t the most atrocious modern untruth of the classical orchestral industry.
Here Lies the Orchestra, Part 2
It ain’t all Sistema
Is it possible that there’s a unifying theory of tempo for a ten movement work? I say there is, and I dedicated the article to Maestro José Antonio Abreu, because the solution I propose would make an economist smile
The Domestic Dispute Strikes Back – Part 2, Jonathan vs. the Horn
...The part of the experience that has stayed with me the longest was the opportunity to engage with the music on a completely different level, to go beyond playing it to a place where I started to understand it, to appreciate its architecture and narrative experientially, even if I lacked the knowledge to deconstruct it theoretically. The difference was no more than frequency and repetition, but music had finally begun to mean something more to me.
Jonathan Andrew Govias 